I took this photo of Nathan Lyons a few years ago. He had some work in group show at Lumiere Gallery. I’ve been a fan of his for a long time. He used to teach a summer workshop at Visual Studies and I toyed with taking that for years. I heard him talk at his most recent book release and I was kicking myself for never taking his workshop. He brought so much more to the table than what meets the eye with his work. He used his photos to tell bigger stories than the image by constructing diptychs and series and uniting whole collections in books that read like great American novels. Somehow I thought this kindred spirt would be around forever.
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I know what you mean – in the summer of 1971 when I was first getting into Robert Frank’s The Americans, Nathan Lyons had him teaching workshops in Rochester. I never knew till years later. I’m sorry I didnt get to know him as well.